FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: patient's blood serum is examined for the contents of tissue inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinase (hTIMP-1). If the value hTIMP-1 is 138 ng/ml to 179 ng/ml in the female patients, and 138 ng/ml to 189 ng/ml in the male patients, the presence of early subclinical left ventricular myocardium affection in the patients suffering hypertension without ventricular hypertrophy is stated.
EFFECT: using the technique allows early diagnosing subclinical cardiac affection in the patients suffering hypertension without left ventricular hypertrophy.
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